I got the stoopid bricks!
That’s right. I got the “booby prize” from FiveCentNickel.com’s 2 year anniversary contest:
A box of bricks
Yep, a box of bricks. Here they are:
What makes it worse is:
1) I just bought 8 bricks yesterday at Home Depot to level the concrete slab that holds our pool pump and filter
2) I got 20 gb of MP3s last weekend from a friend, hoping I would get either the iPod Nano or Shuffle.
I guess I’ll just spin those MP3 DVDs on my finger real fast and try to listen closely. You can play them like records, right?
Thanks Nickel! jerk Thank your wife for the nice note you included! i hope your server crashes Good luck on another 2 years! 🙂
Ooh, maybe I’ll sneak them into Nick’s Mini Cooper to mess up his gas mileage! Nah. But we could cover them with fabric and use them to raise our daybed off the floor some more (for the trundle underneath). Guess it’s not all a wash! And Nickel, you’re still invited to Fogo de Chao next month if you’re in town! but I’m leaving you with the check!
Lol, maybe not so much bitterness 🙂
And a lesson learned on not counting your chickens before they are hatched…
Wow, the booby prize; hey at least it’s better than nothing; just think about it you can still use those bricks and imagine this; you technically got the last laugh since he had to pay to ship out those bricks and it was probably more expensive than he thought. I would have just sent a picture of the bricks to save on the money!
Mercedes, actually he shipped them using a flat rate box for $8.95. He bought the box at USPS and it allows you to ship anything that fits into the box for $8.95.
HAHAHAHA
Um, yeah… There’s no way I would’ve paid full freight to ship those things. It would’ve cost nearly $18 if I hadn’t used the flat rate box.
Looks like there’s some extra room in there. You should’ve filled in the gaps with cement 🙂
that sucks… but at least you were a “winner”
I thought of crushing up some extra bricks and pouring them in the open spaces. 😉
lol, that is a total bad beat CD!! Sorry to hear you were the big winner of the box of bricks!
Begs the question though as the note says,
“Who’s clever now?”
Next year CD, next year!
Lol…that’s the funniest thing I read today. 🙂
Congratulations on your precious new possessions.
Btw, I have one of those in front of my apartment, it’s pretty handy to break a coconut on. Hold the coconut firmly and strike it on one of the edges of the brick and you will get a nice clean break.
Will send you some coconuts if you want to try it out. 😉
Since you technically won them in a contest, don’t forget to claim them as income! 😀
This is EXACTLY why I told Nickel not to include me in the contest. They would have gone to me if I entered.
This begs the question: did it hit you like a ton of bricks?
Love the subscript, BTW.
Wow. That is absolutely hilarious. Good luck finding a use for them!
Thanks for sharing the prize you received. It was a great laugh.
Nice. It would have been better if inside was hidden a Nano or something 😀